All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Wales and Islam: contact, coexistence and conflict in nine centuries of literature. Award-winning poet and critic Dr Grahame Davies shows the full and surprising story of the Welsh relationship with Islam. Speaker: Dr Grahame Davies, poet, librettist and cultural historian, Governor of Goodenough […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Ben Bowen Thomas was one of the most influential Welsh adult educators and civil servants of the twentieth century. He was very well-known among those who, like himself, were prominent civil servants but perhaps less well known to the Welsh public […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Access will be via this page; no registration is needed. Almost all scholars of medieval Welsh texts will have come across manuscripts in the hand of John Jones of Gellilyfdy, Flintshire (c.1580–1658), a competent scribe who copied countless texts, of prose […]
In association with the Montgomeryshire Society The June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Access will be via this page; no registration is needed. Iorwerth Peate is known in Wales as a poet and man of letters but above all as the founder of […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Access will be via this page; no registration is needed. This talk analyses the impact of the Opposition to the Great War in Wales, and how it influenced attitudes through the twenties and thirties through to the Second World War. What […]
Dr Rhian Davies: Artistic Director, Gregynog Festival and Honorary Fellow, Bangor University Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) was Director of the National Council of Music for Wales (1918-41), Gregynog Professor of Music at Aberystwyth University (1919-26), and Edward Elgar's successor as Master of the King's Musick (1934-41). Dr Rhian Davies explores the life and work of […]
Dr Peter Wakelin, writer and curator specializing in built heritage and visual art. This online lecture will be live, with questions from the audience. Architectural drawings, models and photographs are crucial for understanding architecture in Wales. However, the records of individual practices have often been at risk of loss and finding and using architectural papers […]
Dr Cai Parry-Jones: Ph.D FRHistS Curator and oral historian specialising in digital and Jewish heritage SYNOPSIS Cai Parry-Jones‘s book “The Jews of Wales- A History” is a key study of the presence of Jews in Wales over the centuries starting from the 13th century. However, as Parry-Jones shows, there is little mention of Jews in […]
Regrettably this event has been cancelled.
Rydym yn falch i gyhoeddi y bydd Darlith yr Eisteddfod 2020 ar-lein am 1yp ar Ddydd Llun Awst 3ydd 2020 Cyffro'r Newydd, Cysur y Cyfarwydd: ar drothwy canmlwyddiant 'Mab y Bwthyn' Cynan Yr Athro Gerwyn Wiliams, Ysgol y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Bangor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejMOq0sh3g
In association with the Montgomeryshire Society The June Gruffydd Memorial lecture Elena Puw Morgan (1900-73) was a pioneering Welsh-language author of the mid-twentieth century. She is best known today through television adaptations of her two major novels, Y Wisg Sidan / The Silk Gown (1939) and Y Graith / The Scar (1943) on S4C at […]
Wales has always been part of an international maritime community, and its marine area covers a larger area than the land. This lecture explores the diversity of this common inheritance, with a focus on the new knowledge coming out of recent archaeological discoveries, including the Viking-age sword guard from The Smalls, the Ann Francis lost at Aberafan in 1583, and the legendary ‘Dollar wreck’ on Rhossili Bay, Gower.
In association with the Learned Society of Wales Speaker: Dr Aled Eurig, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business, Swansea University Professor Stuart Cole, CBE, Member of Council, in the chair Venue: Committee Rooms, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University Event moved from 12th December - The Society apologises for any inconvenience this change may have cause.
In association with Wales in London Speaker: Dr Jenny Mathers, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Speaker: Peter Lord, Art Historian, formerly at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth. Ceridwen Roberts OBE, Chair of Council, in the chair.
Speaker: Geraint Evans, Senior Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing, Swansea University
The 2019 Eisteddfod lecture will take place on Monday, 5 August 2019 at 12.30pm in Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 on the Eisteddfod field. The lecture will be delivered in Welsh by Emeritus Professor Deri Tomos, Bangor University, on the subject Water and the Structures of Life. Please note that for the first time simultaneous translation will be […]
Yr Athro Prys Morgan, Llywydd y Gymdeithas, yn y Gadair Names must be given to the London office in advance so please let ceridwen.roberts@btopenworld.com know if you wish to attend
Professor Prys Morgan, President of the Society, in the chair Followed by: Joined up thinking for small nations: some personal reflections on the components of prosperity Dr Carol Bell is a Director of the Development Bank of Wales, and Chairs its Investment Committee, having built a broad portfolio career since leaving Investment Banking in the […]
Speaker: Professor M Wynn Thomas OBE, Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English, Swansea University In the chair: Professor Helen Fulton, Member of Council
